Flag Design Contest

So now that the contest is over, I figured it's time to formally post what I submitted.

In March earlier this year, the city of Anaheim (my home city) opened up a contest to design a new look for our current city flag (at the time.) It has to be full of symbolism and look pretty and follow some design guidelines and yadda yadda yadda. We were allowed to submit multiple designs, and then an internal subcommittee would review and choose the winning design. By the time the deadline came around in April, over 100 submissions were sent.

Unfortunately, none of my designs did not win BUT the one below did make it as a first round finalist:

I guess being a first round finalist isn't that bad. That's the farthest any piece of art I've created for any contest has gotten me, so I'll take it.

Below are different color iterations I submitted that I personally like myself:

This whole contest thing was a fun side project anyways. I was a nice getaway from the busy school assignments I was drowning in at the time this was running.